It’s no secret that Boston is an expensive place to live. Rents have been soaring, and in Cambridge they’ve cracked the $5,000 per month mark thanks to the tech boom in Kendall Square. It’s also a fairly expensive place to build, and the city is...

Massachusetts is a major leader in green building, and in 2017 the Commonwealth leapt into first place in the nation with 136 certified construction projects. The Bay State is likely to stay in the top spot for the foreseeable future, thanks to the City of...

When developers acquire a large parcel of land, it’s easy to focus on the exciting aspects of the project: the design, the ribbon cutting, and the profit, for example. All the legal hurdles and process pieces feel like old hat — a little dull, and certainly...

When you live in a city as old as Boston (established in 1630, thank you very much), there’s bound to be a bunch of old laws on the books that don’t make much sense to modern people. The Puritans who founded Boston were well known for their view about fun...

It’s hard to miss the old Boston Edison building in Southie — you can see its twin painted smokestacks from just about anywhere in the neighborhood, and the pink behemoth has been part of the landscape here since coming online as a power plant in 1892....